Crafting For Those Dedicated to Experimentation

Instapot and Spinning

Over this past weekend I have decided to do some experimenting with my Instapot as well as some spinning. Okay the spinning was just something that I remembered to do Sunday morning, but I managed to get over half of a batt spun into singles. I attenuated the other half into mini nests of roving and look forward to an easy spin with them later this week.

I tried out two recipes with my instapot, Lasagna Soup and Butter Chicken. Both of these turned out better than I thought they would. I substituted a box of vegetable pasta and a bag of random vegetables for some of the ingredients in the lasagna soup. It turned out quite well. Not the same without at least Mozzarella Cheese on top, it is just like a tomato soup without the cheese. I will certainly make this recipe again.

Butter chicken is either at Thai or East Indian recipe, and I do not think that I did it justice. I substituted the tomato paste for a can of stewed tomatoes and the Garam Masala for cumin, coriander, cloves, curry paste and vindaloo mix that I had around. I’ll be honest, I really liked it. There was no explosion of heat, I was concerned about that, but there was some decent flavor. I am going to look around and see if I can find the proper spices, but this is certainly a recipe I will keep on the back burner.

On Wednesday my first experiment with one of the ‘meals in a box’ delivery services arrives. I have three meals coming, two servings for each meal, and I look forward to posting a review of that service here. Crafting is a large part of my life, so there will certainly still be crafting posts, but I intend to expand this blog to include other aspects.

As far as my crafting life goes, I have an e-mail in to a dealer of a variety of wheel I am thinking about obtaining. I had some questions and hope that they get back to me this week.